Children’s guide to growing fruit and vegetables

Our children’s guide to growing fruit and vegetables is a fun way to get started on helping kids make healthy eating choices. Planning activities for your kids and getting them to eat enough fruit and vegetables can be tricky. So, we’ve come up with a fun solution to achieve and we’ve included a fruit and vegetable growing cheatsheet for kids!

This downloadable and printable guide teaches children a
valuable life skill, gets them outdoors and encourages healthy eating. If
children know where their food comes from and have had a hand in growing it,
they’ll be more excited about eating it.

Our fruit and vegetable growing guide tells you:

the best times to plant seeds

when to harvest

how often to water

where to plant them

and even creepy crawlies that may pay a visit!

Within our guide to growing fruit and vegetables, your kids will get a little taste of what it’s like to be a farmer by growing carrots, potatoes, onions, beetroot, peas, strawberries, raspberries and more.

To help children learn more about growing fruit and vegetables, the infographic includes fruity facts and an informational rainbow chart about the goodness hiding within your homegrown delights.

All of our fruit and vegetables are grown in a pot or on a
plot, however, if you want to go the extra mile for your seedlings, you can
start them off in a root trainer – this may be for the more advanced farmer.

This guide is a great activity to do with your children in
early spring, giving them the opportunity to get their hands dirty, watch the
lifespan of the foods we eat and ultimately eat more healthily.